Songs for a Tuesday Morning

The sexy and talented Vanessa Mae playing the glass violin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eCvTx5nDDA&feature=related

A remarkable departure from the long gowns and conservatism of the usual classical music virtuoso.

On the other hand...her ?Sabre Dance" is startling.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANZ45vCCUe0&feature=related

The Ballad of Lucy Jordan

The incomparable Dennis Locorriere....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0KsK-Ftzpg



Of course Marrianne Faithful popularized it in this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTubdcCiIms&feature=related


Do you think Helena Hettema does this song better?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTubdcCiIms&feature=related

D Day. 67th anniversary

steam punk clocks and Beethoven

http://www.videobash.com/video_show/wierd-music-clock-10959

http://www.videobash.com/video_show/does-beethoven-s-fifth-work-with-salsa-music-5622


(How I spent my Tuesday afternoon....)

(Well, it was either that or mow the lawn!!!!)

http://www.videobash.com/video_show/intense-guitar-song-tamacun-9123
And someday I will learn to play guitar like this!!!

But the Smokey Mountain Breakdown by a couple of young fellas who should be in school (or on stage!) makes my jaw drop! Jonny Mizone...you will be in the Grand Ole Opry within the year sure!


http://www.videobash.com/video_show/8-year-old-jonny-mizone-22891

Bears.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE8JaXH0qiw&feature=player_embedded#at=13

Yup...bears....

Peter's evil overlord list.

The following are from Peter's Evil Overlord List. Peter was watching Deep Space Nine one day and started compiling a list of things he will NEVER DO if his career choice of becoming an Evil Overlord comes about. He came up with 100 plot devices which are overused/stupid/unlikely, all of which resulted in the demise of the Evil Overlord.
Some, like making sure the ventilation ducting is too small to crawl through seem obvious. Others, like the requirement that all Evil plans be gone over by a grade five kid seem to be pure genius.

You can read all of Peter's list here....
http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html

Here are a few to whet your appetite.

1. If one of my dungeon guards begins expressing concern over the conditions in the beautiful princess' cell, I will immediately transfer him to a less people-oriented position.

2. I will hire a team of board-certified architects and surveyors to examine my castle and inform me of any secret passages and abandoned tunnels that I might not know about.

3. If the beautiful princess that I capture says "I'll never marry you! Never, do you hear me, NEVER!!!", I will say "Oh well" and kill her.

4. I will not strike a bargain with a demonic being then attempt to double-cross it simply because I feel like being contrary.

5. The deformed mutants and odd-ball psychotics will have their place in my Legions of Terror. However before I send them out on important covert missions that require tact and subtlety, I will first see if there is anyone else equally qualified who would attract less attention.

6. My Legions of Terror will be trained in basic marksmanship. Any who cannot learn to hit a man-sized target at 10 meters will be used for target practice.

7. Before employing any captured artifacts or machinery, I will carefully read the owner's manual.

8. If it becomes necessary to escape, I will never stop to pose dramatically and toss off a one-liner.

9. I will never build a sentient computer smarter than I am.

10. My five-year-old child advisor will also be asked to decipher any code I am thinking of using. If he breaks the code in under 30 seconds, it will not be used. Note: this also applies to passwords.

Squirrel of the wild

Squeek and his brother...together at last!


awww, in't he cute!


Climbs like a pro! Look at that bushy tail!






So he still comes home from time to time to check out the peanut situation.

More ninja martial arts...hmmm

http://www.tekbuz.com/hot-martial-arts-chick-nikki-stanley/79648

This is Nikki Stanley. Don't let the drop dead good looks fool you. One kick and its YOU that drops dead.

Toccatta and Fugue in D minor

http://www.videobash.com/video_show/glass-harp-toccata-and-fugue-in-d-minor-bach-15645


And I'll be damned if I know how to take this fellow! Seems like a clown, but wotta clown!!!!


http://www.videobash.com/video_show/amazing-street-artist-14264


and then of course...for something "Completely Different!" a traditional Chinese folk dance....
Just to complete your "OMFG" evening!

http://www.videobash.com/video_show/chinese-hands-17796

Journey to an alternate reality

http://www.videobash.com/video_show/sexy-dangerous-sai-6108

All that skill and looks too! Oh my!
Excellent performance.

Red Squirrels

This cute little baby just jumped up onto my lap this morning...looking for his momma I expect. She no doubt told him to get out of the house while he still knows everything! He was awfully hungry and thirsty! I could not really abandon him outside since it was snow mixed with drizzle out there right now. He would have just keeled over and perished. So I caged him and gave him some water and granola and a bed for the night.
He was very lethargic and slow moving...you can see that in the pictures above. Normally a squirrel would be moving too fast to register on a film! Very hungry....almost skin and bones!
So this little fella is a pet for now....and I'll let him out into the pumpkin patch when the weather turns milder. There are still lots of seeds left over from the great pumpkin massacre for a little fellow like that to snack on.

He looks rather field mouse like...except for his size....and the beginnings of what will be a very bushy tail. And those clawed feet! Oh my! The red squirrels are really pretty, and all in all are smaller than the usual run of squirrels around here. You can see the red just coming in at the back of his head.

Flight of the bumblebee

http://www.todaysbigthing.com/2011/02/17

John Tams...Over the Hills

This is the tune I am working on. Trying to get the words right.

Trouble is, I get into grooving it so much that I forget that I am trying to memorize it!!!

Thats good right?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Fy3tSim3to&feature=related

(Turn up up louder!)

Aimee's 12 pair of legs

http://www.ted.com/talks/aimee_mullins_prosthetic_aesthetics.html

Aimee Mullins, the inventor of the "cheetah" legs for amputees talks about future plans.


And on a related note...all you "Starship Troopers" out there can take heart in this talk about human augmentation.

http://www.ted.com/talks/eythor_bender_demos_human_exoskeletons.html

The guy's name is Bender! No kidding!

Another pair of jaw droppers from the TED talks.

Everybody

"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."
— Albert Einstein

More Doctor Hook

Trouble is...Doctor Hook was, and still is really addictive. This great band put to music poems from Shel Siverstein to make some of the most intense songs of the '70s and '80s. Last concert I saw was after they had come so far down in the world that they were playing at the Coach House Motor Inn in North Bay Ontario. Which to me just goes to show that great music, and great poetry just does not sell.

I mean, listen to this one...the "Ballad of Lucy Jordan". And tell me you don't get a catch in your throat. (This one always brings a tear to MY eyes!)

Sheldon Silverstein was a great, some would suggest THE greatest hippie poet of the '70s. He was a regular staple in Playboy Magazine where he would write songs and ballads about mundane things like Lucy Jordan, and wild amazing rides about dicing with the Devil. (And the devil said, with a grin, now YOUR point is thirteen.) and in other, more mainstream magazines. He was Uncle Shelby to all you folks who grew up in the 70's. But when those poems were turned into music by a competent rockabilly band with a lead singer with a catch in his throat, you get "Carry me Carrie".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZXjUu5HWYE&feature=related

But you might prefer a lighter version of the same song...lots more pot smoke on the stage...grin!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xesfuK83mJI&feature=related

Shel was a singer himself. He liked kids and did a lot of songs for kids. And he was a regular on the Johnny Carson show, among others. One of his most famous songs was made famous by Johnny Cash....he wrote "a boy named Sue".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17XUOQRwbdo&NR=1&feature=fvwp

This is one of his personal favorites....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e5ZVIpB4sw


Shel passed away on 10 May 1999. He WON'T rest in peace... Because every time I feel down, he drags me back into the light.

Doctor Hook

Thursday night blues.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Bor5z6RuQ4&feature=related

And baby makes her blue jeans talk...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iYpboTjtoQ&feature=related

And we all know Sylvia's Mother.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvRVekhMf88&feature=fvwrel

And one from Jesse Coulter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVs-d4eBq9k&NR=1&feature=fvwp

Crime doesn't pay

Crime doesn't pay. Yeah right!!!!!





Proceeds from a drug operation. Crikey!

Odd pictures...

A wonderful site called "Don't judge my Hair." Okay, I won't then.









And then of course, just odd outfits.

Makes ya think.

Makes ya run away fast!


Yup...a gift. Its a gift!!!


And it leaves one with questions that I don't really want any answers for!